{"id":53027,"date":"2020-05-06T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53027"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:02:28","slug":"lee-camp-while-pandemic-destroys-so-many-lives-the-surveillance-state-celebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53027","title":{"rendered":"LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2020\/05\/05\/lee-camp-while-pandemic-destroys-so-many-lives-the-surveillance-state-celebrates\/\">LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/street-surveillance.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47069\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If they\u2019re able to track \u201cviolators\u201d who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I<\/strong>f we don\u2019t fight back against the secretive surveillance state growing steadily around us, your wife\/husband may find out you love a Cinnabon more than you love her\/him. And that might be just the beginning of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While many of us remain quarantined \u2014 inexorably welded to our home\/apartment\/RV in an abandoned Walmart parking lot \u2014 the surveillance state is actually stretching its legs, brought out for a run by our friendly neighborhood oligarchs like a young golden retriever let off its leash on a nice day. Unfortunately, in this case what it\u2019s retrieving is all of our information, movements, thoughts and desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now violations of American\u2019s privacy rights do not hold many people\u2019s attention. We\u2019re too busy adapting to a new, confusing, and anxiety-filled form of existence. (Last week I myself finally saw my dentist, my therapist and my prostitute all via Zoom calls. Unfortunately, I had performance anxiety \u2013 but that was with the therapist [flaccid super-ego].)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More Americans have now been killed by Covid-19 than were killed during the Vietnam War. (I mean Americans killed in Vietnam of course. \u201cOthers\u201d killed have never much mattered to us.) As the virus death toll rises, various governments around the world have discussed using smart city technology to trace where infected people go and who they come in contact with. At first that sounds great. What kind of psychopath doesn\u2019t want to end this pandemic? But it turns out there\u2019s one problem with allowing the moneyed rulers to track every man, woman, and child. That problem \u2014 stop me if you guessed it \u2014 is that they\u2019re tracking every man, woman, and child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates If they\u2019re able to track \u201cviolators\u201d who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t fight back against the secretive surveillance state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,29622,5570,4622,855],"class_list":["post-53027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-lee-camp","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-surveillance-state","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53028,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions\/53028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}